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Electronic Demon Costume

Spark the demon is a costume featuring an Arduino-based voice changer, an animated LED matrix face and glowing EL wire wings. This short guide answers some common questions and collects links to the relevant tutorials and videos that may be helpful in your own Halloween creations.

Affordable HAL 9000 Replica

Why yes, Dave. As a matter of fact I CAN do that.

WIth the right Adafruit parts and a little crafting ingenuity, you can make a pretty decent replica of HAL 9000 to decorate your workshop or hackerspace.

How To Take Great Photos of Your Projects

The Adafruit Photo Tutorial by Johngineer

This tutorial by John De Cristofaro (johngineer) aims to teach you how to take photos of your hacks and projects for sharing on the web, and perhaps even in print. It focuses on smaller items, less than 6”x6”x6” in size. Bigger projects present their own unique problems that are beyond the scope of this article. However, you can always “scale up” the methods presented here to take pictures of larger subjects, at least to a point.

TV-B-Gone Kit

Make every day a "TV-free" day!

Tired of all those LCD TVs everywhere? Want a break from advertisements while you're trying to eat? Want to zap screens from across the street? The new Universal TV-B-Gone kit is what you need! This ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone is fun to make and even more fun to use.

Drawdio

Drawdio: A pencil that lets you draw with music!

When I first saw the Drawdio at Maker Faire I knew it would be a great project for beginners: A lot of fun with instant gratification! Essentially, it's a very simple musical synthesizer that uses the conductive properties of pencil graphite to create different sounds. The result is a fun toy that lets you draw musical instruments on any piece of paper.

Minty MP3

Fresh Breath, Fresh Tunes, Fresh Design

Tired of not being able to find cases for your projects? Stuck with those hideous ABS plastic RadioShack boxes? Try those ubiquitous tin boxes, not only do they block EMI, they come with free mints! Fresh breath and fresh design in one.

Dimmable Li-Ion Halogen Bike Light

Biking in the winter, or at night, is dangerous without a front light.

A good front-light is essential, not only for being seen, but to see the road. LED lamps will not illuminate the road, and they can be too dim for cars to see you (1W or better LEDs are quite nice as headlamps.) I offer here a simple (but high-quality) design to build your own 5 or 10W halogen lamp, which runs off of a rechargeable 7.2V or 7.4V Lithium Ion battery pack.

Matrix 2 Mod

Upgrading the Matrix2 Headlamp for Fun & Profit

We hand-upgraded a headlamp that requires 2 alkaline AA batteries to also work with 2 rechargeable NiMH batteries by replacing the lamp with a custom boost converter.

DIY Welded Bike Stand

For Fun & Profit

This projects is kinda fun, pretty easy so it's good practice if you're just learning how to weld, and is really useful after you're finished! For less than $50, you'll have a nice bike stand for repairing your bicycles.

Low Level Magstripe Reader

Swipe swipe...data!

To make a custom credit card swiper, we purchased a raw magstripe decoder head with track 1 reading. By writing some parity checking code, we were able to read the raw data off of the magstripe, and parse it into output that would be 'typed out' as an emulated keyboard using a USB-enabled Teensy.

Game of Life

Blinky fun cellular automata

In 1970, John Conway came up with a 1-player game called Game of Life. The Game of Life is a mathematical game that simulates 'colonies' that grow or die based on how crowded or lonely they are and is known for the way it creates a beautiful organic display out of randomness. Here is a design for a simple electronic project that plays Conway's Game of Life. Make one kit and keep it on your desk, or attach multiple kit modules together to create a large display.

Bedazzler

DIY non-lethal weaponry

Our first open source Homeland Security non-lethal weapon project - The "THE BEDAZZLER: A Do-it-yourself Handheld LED-Incapacitator".

Game Grrl

A portable Nintendo game

This is a design for a very simple, very inexpensive portable Nintendo gaming system with built in games. Theres no provision for cartridges, but its comfy to play.

Laser Cut PCB Stencils

How to Make PCB Solder Paste Stencils

This technique makes it easy to make basic stencils for SMT paste deposition. The stencils are cut from a thin plastic and last for 10-100 PCBs, great for prototypes!

Laser Custom Stamps

Create your own rubber stamp on a laser cutter!

Create your own rubber stamp on a laser cutter! Perfect for hackerspace passports, outgoing packages, and other fun stuff.

Furby 2012 Teardown

What's inside this hot toy?

There are a lot of fun sensors and interesting mechanics inside the new 2012 Furby, so we thought we'd take it apart and look inside.

Wave Shield Voice Changer

Speak like everyone's favorite baritone Sith lord or sing along with the Lollipop Guild!

Like a fine wine, open source projects improve with age. We've taught this classic shield a new trick: a realtime voice changer!

USB SNES Gamepad

Make a USB gamepad with an accelerometer inside

This project tutorial will show you how you can convert a console game pad into a USB keyboard mouse for playing games on your PC. The USB game pad can be used with nearly any software, such as a MAME emulator, game, simulation software, or for custom user interfaces. We will also show you how to add an accelerometer to the gamepad for tilt based gaming.

USB, DC & Solar Lipoly Charger

Power your projects from the sun!

Make your projects to go green this summer with our specialized USB/Solar Lithium Ion Polymer Battery charger! This charger is a very unique design, perfect for outdoor projects, or DIY iPod chargers. We've spent over a year testing and tinkering with this charger to come up with a plug and play solution to charging batteries with the sun and we're really pleased with what we ended up with.